Privacy Statement

Counsellors Therapy Pot collects and uses personal information about clients in accordance with Data Protection laws. We are registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office. This Privacy Notice explains how your personal information is managed. 

Information you provide when you arrange membership with Counsellors Therapy Pot, is collected and processed. This may include information such as your name, contact details, qualifications and occupation. Only the joint founders of Counsellors Therapy Pot will have access to this information. 

Your information will be used to provide you with an appropriate support as a counsellor and we may use the information to assess any risk. The legal basis for doing so is having your explicit consent and/or vital interest. By arranging membership with Counsellors Therapy Pot it is reasonably assumed you are giving your explicit consent for your information to be held. 

Some information may be collected, with your knowledge, which is classed as Sensitive Personal Data, this may include biometric data.

Counsellors Therapy Pot will only use your Sensitive Personal Data with your explicit consent, except in limited circumstances, e.g. where there is significant safety or safeguarding concerns. In such situations, we will aim to do this with your consent, but in exceptional circumstances we may notify others, e.g. emergency services. 

When your information has been received, confidentiality procedures are implemented to prevent unauthorised access to your information. Your information will be retained for five years. Following this period, your information will be securely destroyed. 

You have the following rights: right to withdraw your consent at any time, the right to have your data corrected or erased, the right to a copy of the current personal information held on you and the right to restrict processing; To discuss these further please email admin@counsellorstherapypot.co.uk. This will then be discussed with you in further detail as it may be that by exercising any of the above rights, the member/organisation relationship may no longer be possible.